A biker who allegedly couldn’t even wait till SUV driver Alexian Lien was dragged out of his car to beat him –punching him through his shattered window as he sat in his vehicle — was ordered held on $100,000 bail Tuesday.
Craig Wright, 29, of Brooklyn didn’t speak as he appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court, with his mother and several friends looking on from the gallery.
His lawyer, Mitchell Elman, insisted his client was innocent, adding, “Mr. Wright has absolutely no criminal record. This defendant had a valid New York State driver’s license.”
But prosecutor Samantha Turino said Wright “reached in and punched the driver of the SUV at least one time. The SUV driver was then dragged out of his vehicle, where the defendant and others stomped on the driver of the SUV.
“They kicked him until he appeared to lose consciousness,” Turino said.
“This defendant is on video stomping him at least three times,’’ she said.
Turino ticked off the litany of Lien’s injuries, which included lacerations above both eyes and on his cheek and the left side of his body and bruising all over.
She said Lien was injured in “what can only be called a brutal and brazen attack.’’
Wright was charged with gang assault, assault and unlawful imprisonment.
A law-enforcement source said that when cops first brought Wright to the precinct, “He said that he didn’t assault the driver.
“Then we showed him the video of he and the others attacking the driver,’’ the source said. “He was like, ‘Oh God, I guess I did kick him.’ ”
By Rebecca Rosenberg
A biker who allegedly couldn’t even wait till SUV driver Alexian Lien was dragged out of his car to beat him –punching him through his shattered window as he sat in his vehicle — was ordered held on $100,000 bail Tuesday.
Craig Wright, 29, of Brooklyn didn’t speak as he appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court, with his mother and several friends looking on from the gallery.
His lawyer, Mitchell Elman, insisted his client was innocent, adding, “Mr. Wright has absolutely no criminal record. This defendant had a valid New York State driver’s license.”
But prosecutor Samantha Turino said Wright “reached in and punched the driver of the SUV at least one time. The SUV driver was then dragged out of his vehicle, where the defendant and others stomped on the driver of the SUV.
“They kicked him until he appeared to lose consciousness,” Turino said.
“This defendant is on video stomping him at least three times,’’ she said.
Turino ticked off the litany of Lien’s injuries, which included lacerations above both eyes and on his cheek and the left side of his body and bruising all over.
She said Lien was injured in “what can only be called a brutal and brazen attack.’’
Wright was charged with gang assault, assault and unlawful imprisonment.
A law-enforcement source said that when cops first brought Wright to the precinct, “He said that he didn’t assault the driver.
“Then we showed him the video of he and the others attacking the driver,’’ the source said. “He was like, ‘Oh God, I guess I did kick him.’ ”